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Posted on 5/17/15 at 4:36 am to Pectus
Your swiffer mop needs to be thrown out
Posted on 5/17/15 at 11:48 am to theantiquetiger
Boeing bomb
Posted on 5/17/15 at 11:58 am to Pectus
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Those are straight nautiloids...fossils related to the coiled nautilis.
interesting that you say this...I have a fossil slab that contains both a straight one and a coiled one side by side...didn't know they were related.
Posted on 5/17/15 at 12:10 pm to theantiquetiger
It's a prehistoric cephalopod. The fossils are known as baccalites.
Posted on 5/17/15 at 12:39 pm to CptBengal
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The fossils are known as baccalites.
It's not bacculites because bacculites have convoluted septae, meaning 1) they're ammonites and 2) different branch of cephalopods
Posted on 5/17/15 at 12:39 pm to Spankum
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interesting that you say this...I have a fossil slab that contains both a straight one and a coiled one side by side...didn't know they were related.
Only distant relatives!
Existed at the same time, however...
Posted on 5/17/15 at 12:44 pm to theantiquetiger
Looks like some type of shell.
Posted on 5/17/15 at 1:35 pm to Pectus
Ammonites are spiral in general. Bacculites I thought are not.
BTW, are you at LSU?
BTW, are you at LSU?
Posted on 5/17/15 at 2:15 pm to theantiquetiger
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Gemologist
not a word
Posted on 5/17/15 at 2:30 pm to CptBengal
Ammonites can be coiled or straight. The key is the curviness of the septa. These aren't. Bacculites are
And yes...although I have my PhD now.
And yes...although I have my PhD now.
Posted on 5/17/15 at 2:34 pm to theantiquetiger
Klingon ship debris
Posted on 5/17/15 at 2:35 pm to Pectus
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I have my PhD now.
damn, pectus...you are the man...
I always find your posts here to be interesting...
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